After Bionics, What Time-Life should do?

No one would handle the '66 Batman better than Time Life.

Maverick would be nice...it's basically unreleased, except for the one-disc sampler that Warners put out.

I would be so on board for a MAVERICK release by T-L!

With all the care they are showing for 6M$M, including extras, pilot films, reunion films and so forth, I would like to see what they would do with Maverick.

Nice to have them all remastered, in a set including The New Maverick telefilm and the spinoff series Young Maverick and Bret Maverick.

No doubt that MAVERICK would get my vote for a great T-L release.

Of course, my second vote would have to go for BATMAN.

I'd vote for "Eight Is Enough" but the last time we heard something about that one was it's tied up in legal issues.

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Originally Posted by Jeff Willis 

I'd vote for "Eight Is Enough" but the last time we heard something about that one was it's tied up in legal issues.

     Agree on that one. I'd love to get a nice set of uncut episodes of that series. Assuming that a prior release wouldn't rule a show out, I would go with Family as my first choice.

the wonder years with all the original music

I'd love to see Time Life release their 1970s WWII documentary series GI Diary. Used to be aired all the time on television but haven't seen it in 15 years or so now.

The lifes and times of grizzly adams  I would like to see
 

I'd love to have a complete release of GREEN ACRES

Time Life has deep pockets, but are they deep enough to clear all the rights problems with Batman (or Shazam for that matter) ??

If rights holders flat out don't want to negotiate then it probably won't happen.

I don't care who puts it out:

Harry O

There's been a lot of clips from the early 70s Johnny Cash show showing up on You Tube lately that hasn't been released in any of the retail compilations thus far.

That got me to thinking...any chance that Time Life could be looking at this as one of their next releases?  They certainly would be in better position to obtain musical clearances than most.

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

The Carol Burnett Show

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

The complete UNCUT CBS Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour/Sonny & Cher Show (101 episodes total) uncut. Would be awesome but because of all the musical acts and licensing and clearances I know it's just a dream.

The Carol Burnett Show would also be wonderful to seev in it's entirety. It would be quite a task and a HUGE set if it was released . Alot of the earlier season shows have not been see since their original airings. 

I'd love to see them do The King Family Show. I'm hoping the family itself gets more of it out eventually (They have clips on YouTube and a few specials from the show's run available on DVD directly), but it would be certainly nice to see it recieve some professional treatment to get the entire thing out there.

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Originally Posted by LeoAmes 

I'd love to see them do The King Family Show. I'm hoping the family itself gets more of it out eventually (They have clips on YouTube and a few specials from the show's run available on DVD directly), but it would be certainly nice to see it recieve some professional treatment to get the entire thing out there.

     Are you talking about the ABC show from the mid-60s? If so, I really question as to the show still existing. They aren't at any archive that I'm aware of and ABC was notorious for dumping all of their videotaped variety shows of that era. I think if it did exist on kinescopes, then they would be at UCLA but they are not.

I'd have to go with WKRP (from S1 w/all music intact), Maverick, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, or (of course) 60's Batman.  Any of those 4 I'd purchase even at TL inflated prices.

Since they did Real Ghostbusters why not do what I consider to be "The Holy Grail" of Animated series:

Ken Snyder's Hot Wheels and Skyhawks!

It takes a thief with Robert Wagner
66 Episodes seems perfect for them taking into account past releases
 always going for complete series

I believe it was filmed unlike some of the other music variety shows of the 60s that also aired in prime time.

Even if it's not and the film elements don't exist in ABC's vault, the King Family has the complete run on tape for both incarnations of the program (Not limited to just the holiday specials that were routinely reaired each holiday season into the 1990s, and the non holiday episodes which even saw some syndication in the 70s). It's not a lost program, just send one of the family members a email for a confirmation. :)

They put up a new song on YouTube every few months. There are some excellent ones with the King Cousins especially that they've uploaded. They were always the highlights of the program if you ask me. They also sell several episodes from the series on DVD (With hopefully more to come, I'd love to see them make the entire run available).

Here are some of my favorites that they've uploaded:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXFLN2z_If4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a116Y8qXiQQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPsx2FXji0k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HUW32iTX3k

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Originally Posted by Neil Brock 

     Are you talking about the ABC show from the mid-60s? If so, I really question as to the show still existing. They aren't at any archive that I'm aware of and ABC was notorious for dumping all of their videotaped variety shows of that era. I think if it did exist on kinescopes, then they would be at UCLA but they are not.

     

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Homefront (with the original broadcast music intact)

The Fall Guy (with the original broadcast music intact)

How about Sonny & Cher?

Maverick would be an instant sale in my household...

The Carol Burnett Show, of course. Probably too big for one boxed set, but we'll see.

Any love still for American Dreams, with all original music intact and both versions of the series finale? Time Life seems to have good deals with music publishers...maybe they'd be the ones to straighten out this series' incredibly large catalog of aired songs? I would absolutely love to see this show in its entirety--it's about 60 episodes, and with the alternate ending, would play like a long, sprawling 60s family mini-series. I think a complete series set would be incredibly wonderful on dvd.

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Originally Posted by Steve...O 

Time Life has deep pockets, but are they deep enough to clear all the rights problems with Batman (or Shazam for that matter) ??

 

If rights holders flat out don't want to negotiate then it probably won't happen.

There are no rights issues with Shazam, it's just Warner Bros. don't seem to have much interest in getting this out (they claimed "masters issues" a long time ago in one chat, but didn't elaborate.

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There are no rights issues with Shazam, it's just Warner Bros. don't seem to have much interest in getting this out (they claimed "masters issues" a long time ago in one chat, but didn't elaborate.

Did FILMATION shoot SHAZAM! in 16mm or 35mm?

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Did FILMATION shoot SHAZAM! in 16mm or 35mm?

16mm, which was par for the course for children's TV in the '70s.

I really don't understand what WB's problems were with masters, though. At least the film prints to Shazam! survive: when Hallmark got its hands on the rest of Filmation's adventure series (Isis, Ark II, Space Academy, Jason of Star Command) they actually destroyed the film prints after they converted them to digital tape. Problem there is they only converted them to the PAL standard, as they had no intentions of US distrubution.

The seven episode of Shazam! that were shown on TV Land a few years back looked in decent-enough condition to me. Certainly looked better than Isis and the others.

Would be awesome if Time-Life or even Timeless or Shout! for that matter would do Universal's Owen Marshall - Counselor At Law (1971-74), our very good friend here Lee Majors co-stars in this classic courtroom gem so why not after these Bionics. We all know and love the western shows he appeared in, this even has a great rousing western-like theme tune (by Elmer 'Magnificent Seven' Bernstein) and among the directors a young Steven Spielberg. I also agree with Rick's suggestion, by the way.

A lot of quality shows mentioned already -- of course Batman and Maverick would be front and centre if I had a say...

To add something to the discussion, i'd toss in

Car 54, Where Are You?

Courtship of Eddie's Father

The Green Hornet

the original Battlestar Galactica

Cade's County

Police Story

The Loner (Lloyd Bridges)

Climax!

A lot of quality shows mentioned already -- of course Batman and Maverick would be front and centre if I had a say...

To add something to the discussion, i'd toss in

Car 54, Where Are You?

Courtship of Eddie's Father

The Green Hornet

the original Battlestar Galactica

Cade's County

Police Story

The Loner (Lloyd Bridges)

Climax!